december bulletin board.

It's been up for a few weeks, but here is our December bulletin board! It's my absolute FAVORITE so far, I don't know how we can beat it! We put glitter on the Christmas lights to make it look like they were shining. The glitter on the letters was a last minute decision, but I think it looks GREAT! I'm proud of my work :)

bulletin boards

So after I was hired last January, I've been asked to create fun bulletin boards for our resource room. I never thought I was creative when it came to things like that, but I guess it turns out I might be! Every bulletin board I've done, I've taken a picture. Here is my collection so far:

Here is my first bulletin board. I created this in March 2011 and it stayed up for pretty much the rest of the school year.

 I created this one for the beginning of the school year. We start school the first of August, so this stayed up for the entire month.

After the August bulletin board, the ladies I work with and I collaborated to come up with the idea that we could have kind of a "progressive" and "moving" bulletin board that would change every month while utilizing some things from the previous month. Here is the one we created for September.

Our September bulletin board evolved into our October bulletin board. My resource teacher LOVES Snoopy, so the rest of our boards will most likely have a Snoopy theme.

 And here is our November bulletin board. This one is my favorite so far. I love the straw coming out of Snoopy's hands and hat.

 These boards have been so fun to create! I love working with my ladies at school to come up with ideas for the next month. I can't wait to see what we come up with for December....stay tuned for a picture of it and the rest of the boards I create from now on! :)

oh the things Kindergartners say....

This morning, my little buddy kept telling me that I'm so nice to him, or I'm a good friend to him, or that I'm a very nice lady. The things he says to me make me laugh! I also had another little girl run up to me, hug me and say "You are like a mother to me!" and I'm pretty sure I do nothing "mother-like" for her...haha :)

Oh and here is a story from last Wednesday: I was working with my little buddy on reading. We were reading through a list of words. We got to the word "shave" and he was able to sound it out. Once he did that, I asked him if he could use the word "shave" in a sentence. He replies with "I shave my mom!" I couldn't help but laugh!

KA-CHOW!

So in his mind, a kindergarten boy was a superhero today. And not just any hero, but I'm pretty sure he was Lightning McQueen. Today he asked the teacher if he could go to the bathroom. She let him go, and he walks to the bathroom door, then turns around and comes to me cupping his hands and said, "Could you hold my super powers?" Holding back laughter I said, "You can set them on the table." he replies, "Ok!" and 'sets the powers down' and heads to the bathroom. My little buddy actually believed that he left something on the table and he kept looking around the table for his "super powers." When he was done in the bathroom, he busts out the door and yelled "KA-CHOW!!" (Lightning McQueen's 'catchphrase'). The teacher and I just laugh. He spent the rest of the day saying "KA-CHOW!" at random moments. You seriously cannot help but laugh!

The day before spring break

So today was the last day of school for the students before spring break begins (teacher have a professional development day tomorrow), and let's just say I think the teachers are more ready for spring break than the kids because the kids drove the teachers CRAZY today! Here are some stories:

So a student (not in the classroom I work in) was caught showing condoms to other students in the classroom, and she said that her and her friends wanted to blow them up in the bathroom. All I have to say is wow....

My little buddy WOULD NOT listen to me today...it took us a long time to get through the work that we needed to. So by the end of the day when my little buddy was reading with his 4th grade reading buddy he runs up and says "My reading buddy isn't reading to me!" So I go ask his reading buddy why he isn't reading and he says my little buddy "won't give me the book!" So my little buddy goes to get a different book and starts goofing around with some other kids in the classroom. So I FINALLY get him to go back to his reading buddy and as he's walking back, I say (in a COMPLETELY joking and sarcastic manner), "You know you're driving me crazy, right?" To which he replies, "YUP!!" What a stinker...

As the class was walking out to go home, I told them to have a good spring break. I got several different responses "Miss LeTourneau, have a WONDERFUL spring break...have an AMAZING spring break...have an EXCELLENT spring break!" I love the kids I work with :)

Now my kiddos are on spring break, so there won't be any updates until we go back!

Oh boy....

So there is this little boy in the classroom I work in. He is quite the interesting kiddo to say the least. Here are some highlights from the day with him:

• At recess he ran up to me and told me "The fire's on!" For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what he was trying to tell me, but it was important!
• Any time I try to help him out, he likes to pull his paper away from me and try and hide it an say "NO! ME DO!" Welp, ok...
• This boy and my little buddy that I work with go from being best buds to enemies about 10 times per day. They make quite the duo!
• He also likes to ignore me any chance he gets because "I'm not the teacher."
• He also likes to take off his socks...and we find them EVERYWHERE! On the floor, shoved under the bookshelf, and behind the recess ball bin....and there is ALWAYS an odd number of them!
• Throughout the day today, 2 holes in his pants appeared and grew...one on his knee and the other on his butt...he didn't care.
• He also spent his time in music class crawling around like a cat, wiggling his butt and "scratching"

Needless to say, this kid gives me interesting stories to tell!

starting this again

So I decided to start up my blog with stories from the school I am a parapro at...my job title is a special education paraprofessional and my job is to follow around a kindergartner and make sure he is behaving. So I spend most of my day in a kindergarten classroom, which provides me with several interesting stories to say the least.

Here's my story from today:
I was monitoring the bathrooms in the hallway while the kindergartners went to the bathroom. I heard a lot of commotion from the boys bathroom. I had a 6th grade boy bring out 4 of the kindergartners from the classroom I work in. Apparently these boys were trying to get each other to "kiss the toilet" (and these 4 are pretty much some of the most well-behaved students in the class!). Then I had that same 6th grader drag out another one of my kindergartners from the bathroom, apparently he was crawling underneath bathroom stalls! Needless to say, boys in bathrooms are never a good combination!

That's my story from today, and each day I definitely have a new and funny story to tell. I love my job :)